What Makes Me Laugh

I spent several hours on the Internet tonight trying to track down a video clip or transcript of a Saturday Night Live skit about Fline Swu (or Swine Flu) from 1975. Doug swears that’s where the nickname for Swine Flu  came from and I’m dying to see the original skit. I tried searching every which way and it doesn’t seem to exist online or maybe at all. Sometimes Google doesn’t have all the answers.

In the process, however, I found this gem: a public service announcement from the 1970’s about the Swine Flu. The second part, where the man kisses everyone in the family and his mother’s friend dies as a result is funny because the background narrator is speaking as if she’s selling a household cleaning product instead of a vaccine for a virus. Slate Magazine explained this week that if you did get the vaccine in 1976 and didn’t die from an allergic reaction to it, you probably do have some immunity to this virus, but keep washing your hands anyway.